Israel Defense Forces:
Israeli Casualties in Battle

(1860 - Present)

A total of 23,137 men and women have been killed defending the land of Israel since 1860, the year that the first Jewish settlers left the secure walls of Jerusalem to build new neighborhoods.

Since the end of the War of Independence (1948), 2,446 Israelis have been killed in terrorist attacks - 2 since Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) 2013. Over the course of the year 2012-2013, 92 members of the security forces - police, IDF soldiers, security personnel and veterans - were killed in, or died as a result of injuries inflicted from, service to the state.